Richard Alba
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 81 |
| Date of birth | December 22,1942 |
| Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
| Born | New York |
| United States | |
| Job | Sociologist |
| Books | Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration |
| Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America | |
| Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe | |
| Italian Americans: Into the Twilight of Ethnicity | |
| Blurring the Color Line | |
| Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America | |
| Right Versus Privilege: The Open-admissions Experiment at the City University of New York | |
| The Immigration Experience for Families and Children: Congressional Seminar, June 4, 1998 | |
| Ethnicity and Race in the U. S. A. : Toward the Twenty-first Century | |
| The emergence of the European Americans | |
| Education | Columbia University |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada |
| H index | 71 |
| Affiliations | City University Of New York |
| Interests | Sociology |
| Immigration | |
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| Urban Sociology | |
| Demography | |
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| ID | 652563 |
Richard Alba Life story
Richard D. Alba is an American sociologist, who is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is known for developing assimilation theory to fit the contemporary, multi-racial era of immigration, with studies in America, France and Germany.
